Manotick seniors protest truck visitors on Bridge Road

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About 100 Manotick seniors and different residents took to 2 intersections Wednesday morning to protest towards what they are saying is the well being and security menace of 800 heavy vehicles rumbling via the village on daily basis.

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They donned security vests, and a few leaned on walkers, to wave placards with “get the heavy vehicles off Bridge Road,” their rallying cry.

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The truckers should not doing something unlawful, village resident Monty Doyle mentioned, “nevertheless it flies within the face of widespread sense and decency to place an arterial route via a group security zone, the place seniors stay, the place faculties are and church buildings are.”

The street is used as a shortcut between Freeway 417 and Freeway 416. Site visitors will worsen with extra large-scale warehouses coming to the town, Doyle mentioned.

“It’s going to add 1,000 vehicles per day to this route,” he mentioned, including that residents did an evaluation of metropolis visitors information.

“There’s one severe accident each 19 days on this one kilometre. Each 19 days there’s a severe accident — cyclists, pedestrians, motor automobiles,” he mentioned.

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“So this isn’t a secure stretch to be placing this sort of stress on.”

The occasion, known as Come Stroll With Us, began on the Manotick Place Retirement Group.

Organizers mentioned the village is affected by the quantity, noise and dimension of the vehicles, which may’t safely navigate streets and intersections that weren’t designed for his or her size, tonnage or turning radius.

They mentioned that 1,000 residents signed a petition in June asking the town to get the visitors moved to the Strandherd Bridge and Roger Stevens Drive.

-with recordsdata from Julie Oliver